Home Again

How it feels

This documentary looks at why Africans migrate to Europe and the hardships they face. It follows the process organized by the International Organization for Migration to repatriate refugees back to their home countries.

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What happens

Home Again is a 2022 Gambian documentary film written and directed by Babucarr Manka. The film elaborates about the migration crisis and depicts the circumstances which have forced the Africans to migrate to European nations in pursuit of better career opportunities and access to high quality of life. The film reveals how the International Organization for Migration organizes the repatriation process of the African immigrants to send them back to their own home nations who all arrived to the major European nations as refugees. The film was screened as a world premiere on 7 May 2022 in the African Encounters category at the Internationales Dokumentarfilmfestival München (DOK.fest München) and it was the only Gambian film to have been premiered during the 2022 edition of the DOK.fest Munich. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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